Monday, January 12, 2009

Dec 31st

At about noon on December 31st we were told we could travel across state lines and go home whenever we were ready. So we logged into Southwest's website and booked the 7pm flight to San Diego. Then called our family to see if we could get a ride from the airport.

We called Ralph and set up a time for him to come by and spend some time with Alexander.

We cleaned the house the best we could (I think I forgot to start the dishwasher), frantically packed and took off for the airport. We returned the rental car and felt so relieved when we got to the check-in counter in time for departure. We went through the formalities of checking in and felt like the next chapter in our lives was really going to begin. The ticket agent had us repack our suitcases because one was overweight by 2 pounds and then she took the first two bags and put them on the conveyor belt. As she was preparing the stickers for the next two bags she looked down at her screen to notice that our flight had been cancelled and were stuck in TN until January.

We stayed the night at the Music City Sheraton which was very nice, but on New Years Eve was quite busy for a couple with a 15 day old baby.

1 comment:

soldbymickie said...

Alex just want to make sure he was pure blood country boy in Tn for all of 2008. I hated that I was sick and did not get to see you guys again before you left town.